Belmar Pier Sunrise, NJ, USA
The pier at Belmar, NJ, is a popular spot for fishing, surfing, bird watching, and swimming. I used an ND3 filter by Blue Frog to allow for a longer shutter speed. The 13-second exposure provides a soft, blurring effect that makes the sky and water smoothed out and ethereal.
Sunset Light Reflection On San Diego Skyline, CA, USA
I was inspired by a large, backlit photo hanging in a nearby Mexican restaurant. It was a picture from the sixties of the San Diego skyline, hanging on the entry wall. I tried many times to recreate my own version of that image but never really found the perfect spot. On certain days, from the […]
Big Hole Valley Rain Squall, Wisdom, Montana, USA
It was an early August morning, and it started the way many days begin this time of year: a cool morning breeze bringing a squall moving up the valley from the South. This system was most likely a weak cold front that originated from the Bitterroots, bringing some much-needed moisture. As the squall moved up […]
St Peter Dome From Piazzale Socrate, Rome, Italy
Although Rome is known as the City of Seven Hills, there are actually very few vantage points for capturing cityscapes. Until recently, these spots included a small area at Piazzale Socrate, on the slopes of Monte Mario, offering a view of St. Peter’s and a vast stretch of the city reaching all the way to […]
Misty Labyrinth, Lomza Landscape Park, Narew River, Poland
I took this photo with a drone in Łomża Landscape Park, Poland. The river in the photo is the Narew. In this location, the river meanders, creating winding bends. A riverbank always creates interesting guiding lines that can be used to compose landscapes. That’s what I wanted to achieve in this photo. Additionally, I wanted […]
Sparks Lake Sunset, Deschutes County, OR, USA
As frequent storms off the coast of Oregon had been producing warm, humid, and unstable weather in Central Oregon this summer, I knew the atmospheric conditions were favorable for an exceptional sunset. Hoping nature would cooperate one more time, I packed my camera and headed for Sparks Lake. By late afternoon, I was hiking along […]
An Evening Remembered, Palouse, Washington State, USA
There are sunsets that impress us with brilliant color, and then there are evenings that stay with us for reasons we don’t fully understand until much later. I had spent the afternoon wandering the back roads of Washington’s Palouse, drawn by its graceful hills and the quiet rhythm of farmland stretching to every horizon. As […]
Pre Dawn, Alpe di Siusi, Dolomites, Italy
This was my second day at this location, hoping for a decent sunrise. Up at “stupid o’clock” to hike up to this viewpoint. A tiny bit of ground mist started to form but disappeared as the light and temperature slowly increased. This image was taken 30 minutes before sunrise; when the sun finally appeared, it […]
Last Rays, Dege Peak, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA
This was my second attempt to capture the sunset over the Sunrise area of the park. On the first attempt, a fog bank rolled in five minutes before the sun was about to fall behind the distant peaks of the Olympic Mountain Range! Dege Peak is a short hike from either the Sunrise Visitor Center […]
Sunset at Vik Beach, Iceland
We began the evening photographing the Reynisdrangar sea stacks from the black sand beach near Vík, Iceland. The sky was a heavy, unbroken gray, and it seemed unlikely that sunset would amount to much. Rather than leave, we decided to wander farther down the beach and wait. Little by little, the light began to change. […]